Comcast announced Monday that its DOCSIS 3.0 “wideband” cable internet service will soon be available in the states of Oregon and Washington, giving residents a chance to purchase internet access at speeds up to 50 Mbps sometime in December.

The region will see Comcast’s second major wideband rollout. The ISP previously announced DOCSIS 3.0 availability for residents of New England, New Jersey, and its home state of Philadelphia late last October. Pricing remains consistent, with 25 Mbps service available for $62.95 a month. Full-speed service, the so-called “Extreme 50” option, will run residential subscribers a cool $139.95 a month.

Comcast subscribers who choose not to upgrade can also expect a boost: their line speeds will double, at no charge.

Competing ISPs Time Warner, Road Runner, and others, have yet to announce substantial DOCSIS 3 plans, leaving Verizon and its fiber-to-the-curb FiOS option as the only other ISP offering wideband speeds to U.S. consumers.

In addition to upgrading its network, Comcast is in the middle of implementing a company-wide, FCC-supervised transparency program, designed to inform subscribers of the implicit limitations of their service – namely, that they are subject to a non-negotiable 250 GB monthly bandwidth allowance, even at 50 Mbps speeds.

Comcast previously found itself in hot water with the FCC after press investigators found the ISP interfering with customers’ BitTorrent connections – among other protocols – in an effort to manage customers’ excessive bandwidth usage. This plan backfired, prompting a number of class-action lawsuits and a sometimes-heated showdown between Comcast executives and FCC chairman Kevin Martin.

Trailing competitor SBC by a mere 300 million subscribers, Comcast is the United States’ second largest ISP.